On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 00:40 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 21:47:18 -0700, > Christopher Aillon <caillon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Though, if someone had come by and made a new CLI tool for managing > > networks a few years ago, would people really decide to switch their CLI > > tool because of it? Would it have gotten the development and user > > community behind it to support its development? My guess is probably > > not, especially given there were several CLI tools that attempted to do > > the automation back when NM first came out. People are picky about > > their command line tools. What happened happened, and probably couldn't > > have happened any other way. > > There was a change a few years ago. ip replaced ifconfig and route. Er, it did? I'm still using ifconfig and route. They appear to work. :) The joys of backwards compatibility! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
